Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-23

ened by these pests. I plowed deep
furrow about this field and backed it.
Taking six-inch fence boards, I set
them up on the edge along this bank,
tapping and stalking them down. Twice
a day wet this board with kerosene
about two inches from the top, and the
result is that when the bugs approach
they once turn about and march
away. By this means a thirty-three-
acre crop of barley will, Thursday be
ready for the sickle instead of worthless.
| treated sixty-fve-acre field of corn
in similar manner, with most salts
factory results. Of course, this method
involves time and labor, but it is far
preferable to losing ones crops. Here
after / expect to use q mixture of cheap
kerosene and coal tar. It's cost the
cornstalks alone will doubly offset
where feed is as scarce as it is in
Southern Minnesota. Where corn has
already been damaged by the the bugs,
by blowing furroW against the row,
throwing the clay up well and dressing
with a hoe, the pests may beso checked
for time that in fortnight growth
OF corn fodder may be had which will
prove as good as hay.
BUYING YOUNG PIGS
Young pigs are likely to be very
scarce, not surprising circumstances
after low prices for pork last Fall. OF
course, the rise in pork could scarcely
have been foretold, as it is partly the
result of speculation and may not be
permanent, but it was quite certain
last Fall, when good breeding sows
We're sold at SIS and even less per hum
dred for dressed pork, that they were
worth more than this to keep for
dropping a litter of pigs in the Spring.
The market hardly ever turns so that
this does not pay and occasionally as at
present it pays largely. But now the
caution needs to be put the other way.
Spring pigs, under the stimulus of ac-
tive competition, are likely to bring
nearly or quite as much as they will
bring with average care through the
Summer and fattened in the Fall.
Nothing so excites the hopeful magma
nation of a buyer as the sight of a
thrifty SOW with litter of young pigs,
unless it is the same SOW week or SO
before she has narrowed them. In the
latter case the buyer will usually multi
ply the amount of pork he can put on
each one by two or three more pigs
than there are.
PROFIT OF GEESE.
The goose is not very beautiful or
pleasant bird to have around during the
growing season, but it is quite handy
to have at holiday time, and even before
will have paidits way in feathers if kept
where it will not interfere with crops.
They are far less ravenous than ducks,
and with a pasture all their own they
will produce in feathers and increase of
flock as much from the same amount of
feed as any other kind of stock. Feath-
ers are much higher priced than wool,
but feathers will..need picking regularly
every six or seven weeks during warm
weather, while sheep give all their crop
for the year at one clipping. The great
amount of laborrequired to get feathers
from live geese is probably one reason
why many will not keep them, but in
these times, when so many easier
methods of farming do not pay, geese
ought to secure more attention.
TO READ IN THE SHADE.
Guineas and turkeys are excellent
foragers, and destroy large number of
insects in season.
There are good and rich mixers in all
breeds of cows-only and always ex-
cepting the pump-handle breed.
Begin Bookkeeping with one or two
colonies and study the subject as you
enlarge and extend the business.
The man who warns himself up ev-
cry morning grooming his horses, will
be well remunerated for his trouble.
Better late than never. Clean out
the cellar, and clear up the yard if these
matters are not all ready attended to.
The stems of roses having borne
blooms should be cut back to a strong
bud, which will soon push out new
stems.
If you wish to raise good many
fowls you must keep them in separate
small focks. Large numbers do not
flourish well together.
Dandelions for 'sgreens" arc raised by
the acre around Boston, holding the
first rank on the list of spring green's.
Sluggish horses are generally made
SO by the way they are handled. A la
zy man is pretty sure to have lazy
horses.
There is no one thing that is so much
required nowadays on the average farm
as to thoroughly systematic labor.
You cannot grow plants with ..wet
feet. = Farmers had therefore better
have tiles in the ground than on their
heads.
A new, cheap, and effective insect
killer is composed of one part muriate
OF potash in one thousand parts of wa
ter.
Most farmers can keep few hives of
bees to advantage. Honey, like fruit,
should be often found on a farmers
table.
The more an acre will produce, the
larger the profit, and the better you Gull
tivate that acre the more it wilI3nrn.